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Residents of Jackson City, Mississippi's capital city, had no running water since 29 August 2022, when heavy rains and floods caused a significant failure at its main water treatment plant, OB Curtis. Since late July, Jackson's 150,000 residents have been put under a boil-water advisory to …
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Asset Management Plan Content - Auckland University Lecture Video May 2021 from Inframanage. In this video, Ross Waugh talks about the content of an asset management plan. He used the Christchurch City Council's Community Facilities Asset Management Plan as an example. This video is a …
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Talking about "Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning" Ross explains the advantage of making lots of small decisions. In this post, Ross gives an illustration and discusses further. The other thing is thinking about a car or a boat or something like that. When you’re going in …
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So, uncertainty theory. And I know hopefully you’ve been exposed to a little bit of that. If you haven’t, Dr. Henning will be no doubt pleased to point you in the right direction but you can use uncertainty theory and statistics as a planning tool with infrastructure. And it assists in going, so …
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In this post, Ross continues to talk about strategy vision in developing the asset management plan. Specifically, he discusses the pace of change, which is currently high. Further on, he shares his idea of analyzing the changes and building flexibility to the changes. The pace of change …
Asset Management Strategy - Integration Steps So the integration, as we’re saying before with the ISO 55000 diagram. So you developed your 10-30 year asset management strategy, your tactical planning is your asset management plans, your renewal plans, and detailed individual analysis if need …
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So the other thing is, at a strategic level and particularly if you’re doing a whole of the region, a whole of the city, a whole of country stuff is that you’ll get scrutinized and challenged. It’s as simple as this, most countries in the world the is the developed countries spend between 2-4 …
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So the key issues, and this is problem domain definition. This is Dr. Henning-speak here. So there’s a problem and a domain for that problem. What are we trying to sort out? And so the key issue is what are we solving? Are we solving a growth issue? Are we solving an economic decline and …
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In the previous post, Ross discussed the "Elements of Strategy in Asset Management" that includes: Big picture conversationsWhat is the story you are trying to tell?What are the key issues? Ross continues to talk more about strategy in asset management in this post. What is the impact of …
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And a strategy at the end of the day is quite big-picture conversations. If you find yourself writing a strategy, getting into detail, back out of it because the detail isn’t required in a strategy. But, you must have a detailed analysis to support strategies. Big picture conversations So …
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So what does strategic infrastructure asset management planning do? It looks at a high level, at a long way up, 10 to 30-year plus analysis period. And it takes a look at the big picture and the big trends. So you are not looking at micro or projects or even a 10-year look at an asset plan or …
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This post is based on the second session of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland titled, "Strategic Asset Management Planning." Inframanage.com transcribed his lecture and developed it into a series of blog posts. So the first thing is, I thought we’d start with this in terms …
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